I’ve been spending a lot of time these days at ice rinks with my son and his hockey team. Thankfully I still have many pen + ink combinations from the summer to look at including this one from my August line-up.

Handwritten Review

Pen: Edison LE Mina EF
Ink: Diamine Teal
Paper: Rhodia No. 16 Grid

Diamine Teal is a pretty nice match with the blue swirl ebonite of the Edison LE Mina. The ebonite on this pen still smells funky.

This teal, I guess it’s a bit more green than blue. It’s pretty dark so that is not a whole of of shading going on. No sheen or shimmer. So it’s okay as a teal but not too exciting. It doesn’t really do anything for me.

It flowed well in this narrow EF nib of the LE Mina. It never skipped. No hard started. Was well-behaved on every type of paper I tried.

No ghosting, feathering, bleeding. Writes kind of dry, toothy.

Closing Comments

Looking back I seemed to be neutral at best on my feelings for Diamine Teal. I think it was around the type that J. Herbin Caroube de Chypre was released and I had sparkles in my mind. Sparkles and shimmer are nice for certain situations, but inks without them are perfectly fine as well.

Diamine Teal and the blue swirl ebonite of the pen reminds me of dark wash jeans. Deep and multi-dimensional. Nothing neutral about that.

The arrival of October brings to mind fall colours capped off with Halloween. So, my pen and ink line up for the month rich reds, oranges and brown. The one limitation was that the ink had to come stored in plastic bottles. This was because October 1 fell on Sunday but I headed up to our family cottage for the weekend on Friday. I didn't have time to ink up before leaving for our trip hence, I tried to choose ink bottles that wouldn't crack.

It’s that time of year again - preorder season for the next year’s edition of the Hobonichi planner. With that in mind, today’s Throwback Thursday is to what may be the most viewed post on Pendora’s Box: Hobonichi Techo vs Stalogy 365 Throwdown.